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Fleet of motor vehicles. By type. Counties and Aran, and areas

Fleet of motor vehicles. By type. Counties and areas 2012
Cars Industrial tractors Motorcycles Lorries and vans Buses and coaches Others Total Vehicles per 1,000 inh.
Alt Camp 23,214 279 3,462 6,724 19 1,370 35,068 780
Alt Empordà 74,074 776 13,851 23,111 75 3,699 115,586 833
Alt Penedès 63,225 625 8,572 17,447 85 3,622 93,576 884
Alt Urgell 11,472 115 1,507 3,602 49 750 17,495 840
Alta Ribagorça 1,894 27 210 740 7 184 3,062 739
Anoia 58,771 489 9,529 15,705 73 3,382 87,949 742
Bages 153,918 908 13,875 45,619 152 11,168 225,640 1,218
Baix Camp 89,911 785 16,230 23,216 117 3,940 134,199 698
Baix Ebre 36,761 284 5,304 14,910 177 2,083 59,519 733
Baix Empordà 71,234 290 16,052 22,261 165 2,794 112,796 855
Baix Llobregat 356,194 2,738 65,166 67,989 711 14,185 506,983 633
Baix Penedès 45,403 306 6,946 10,124 57 1,804 64,640 643
Barcelonès 801,521 3,518 262,675 142,438 3,383 21,613 1,235,148 555
Berguedà 21,222 171 3,321 7,800 14 1,558 34,086 834
Cerdanya 9,086 30 1,819 4,276 23 931 16,165 852
Conca de Barberà 10,827 102 1,431 3,613 15 939 16,927 809
Garraf 60,669 278 16,320 12,014 73 1,745 91,099 626
Garrigues 10,791 125 1,358 3,659 11 786 16,730 837
Garrotxa 28,917 278 4,958 9,691 36 1,622 45,502 821
Gironès 88,416 696 17,918 24,116 294 3,599 135,039 745
Maresme 194,666 657 44,510 41,831 265 6,251 288,180 664
Montsià 32,151 414 3,418 12,491 11 2,051 50,536 713
Noguera 20,433 448 2,423 6,447 34 1,825 31,610 797
Osona 78,183 556 11,523 23,633 70 5,071 119,036 773
Pallars Jussà 6,516 146 712 2,705 18 615 10,712 770
Pallars Sobirà 3,549 28 486 1,760 21 480 6,324 863
Pla d'Urgell 19,428 456 2,166 5,122 30 1,635 28,837 781
Pla de l'Estany 15,858 163 2,627 5,062 31 920 24,661 787
Priorat 5,129 14 1,000 2,186 14 332 8,675 882
Ribera d'Ebre 11,754 65 2,053 4,187 16 778 18,853 811
Ripollès 13,364 91 2,374 4,978 36 891 21,734 834
Segarra 11,925 346 1,181 3,394 31 1,025 17,902 773
Segrià 93,273 1,854 12,330 24,161 264 6,737 138,619 671
Selva 80,971 776 18,273 22,244 394 3,654 126,312 742
Solsonès 7,447 162 1,040 2,814 7 782 12,252 904
Tarragonès 113,577 1,105 20,135 23,168 604 5,096 163,685 656
Terra Alta 5,355 54 582 2,805 2 468 9,266 746
Urgell 18,745 290 2,060 5,698 5 1,259 28,057 772
Val d'Aran 5,136 16 845 2,142 15 380 8,534 860
Vallès Occidental 408,944 2,813 66,514 85,272 825 17,438 581,806 650
Vallès Oriental 195,684 1,937 29,993 45,156 314 9,299 282,383 703
Non county 124 0 14 46 0 5 189 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Catalonia 3,359,732 25,211 696,763 786,357 8,543 148,766 5,025,372 670
Àmbit Metropolità 1,957,009 11,663 468,858 382,686 5,498 377,188 2,894,500 608
Comarques Gironines 372,834 3,070 76,053 111,463 1,031 110,432 581,630 791
Camp de Tarragona 242,658 2,285 42,258 58,907 769 58,138 358,554 693
Terres de l'Ebre 86,021 817 11,357 34,393 206 34,187 138,174 735
Ponent 174,595 3,519 21,518 48,481 375 48,106 261,755 721
Comarques Centrals 260,770 1,797 29,759 79,866 243 79,623 391,014 993
Alt Pirineu i Aran 37,653 362 5,579 15,225 133 15,092 62,292 829
Penedès 228,068 1,698 41,367 55,290 288 55,002 337,264 717
Source: Idescat, based on data from the DG de Trafic of the Ministerio del Interior.
Note: El total no inclou els ciclomotors.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.

Last update: April 10, 2013.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Buses
Vehicles whose purpose is transport of travellers with a capacity for more than nine persons, including the driver. Trolleybuses (vehicles connected to an electrical line that do not move around on rails) are excluded from this category.
Lorries and vans
Vehicles whose purpose is transport of goods (motorcycles with three wheels, weighing no less than 400 kg are excluded).
Motorcycle
Two-wheeled vehicles, with or without a sidecar the passenger compartment laterally attached to the motorcycle. Cars for disabled people are also included in this category.
Fleet of motor vehicles
Set of motor vehicles in circulation (except mopeds and special vehicles). It is made up of the registrations for each year, minus any vehicles retired and reported. This group includes: buses, trucks and vans, motorcycles, industrial tractors and estate cars.
Industrial tractors
Vehicles capable of dragging a semi-trailer, without taking farming tractors into account.
Private cars
Four-wheeled vehicle whose purpose is transportation of travellers, with a maximum capacity of nine people, including the driver.

Methodological aspects

On December, 31.

From 2010 on, mopeds are included.

Unavailable information is represented using the symbol ":". When the value is lower than that of the minimum unit to be able to estimate the statistical operation or if it effects statistical confidentiality, the symbol used is "..".